Archaically lying in the Knott Lanes division of
Ashton township, Fitton Hill anciently constituted a farmstead, one of several once lying within the area built upon by the estate. All the hamlets and farms have now gone but place-names such as Deanshut and Marland Fold survived in the guise of street names and schools in the area. The former Fitton Hill farm dated from as early as 1618 when an Edmund Fitton was recorded as residing there. From 1894 the area around Fitton Hill was part of the
civil parish of
Bardsley in the
Limehurst Rural District until its abolition in 1954, when its territory was divided between the towns of Oldham and Ashton Under Lyne. ==Transport==